Learn why it's absolutely crucial for AI-related data science work to be transparent, explainable, accountable, and ethical in its design and execution.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- What is AI accountability?
- The promise of AI
- General and narrow AI
- The challenge of classification errors
- The causes of classification errors
- Bias in AI
- Supervised and unsupervised learning
- Biased labeling of data
- Construct validity
- The absence of meaning
- Vulnerability to attacks
- Dimensions of justice
- Moral and relational reasoning
- Issues of authenticity
- Privacy laws
- Spurious discrimination
- The right to explanation
- Discrimination in data
- Discrimination in implementation
- AI in life and death situations
- AI in the military
- The challenges of military AI
- Strategies for developers
- Strategies for executives
- Strategies for public relations
- Strategies for regulators
- Strategies for consumers
- Next steps
Taught by
Barton Poulson